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The Junior League of Atlanta, Inc.’s (JLA) 15th Annual Empowerment Award was created to support our vision of assisting and celebrating at-risk women and children who have worked to achieve self-sufficiency.

Generational poverty occurs in families where at least two generations have been born into poverty. Unlike situational poverty, which occurs when someone experiences a sudden change in circumstances (job, illness, divorce, etc.), generational poverty is part of a cycle that is often incredibly hard to break out of.

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